as in cohorts
one associated with another in wrongdoing
the thief and his accomplices were eventually caught and brought to justice
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Recent Examples of accomplices
Up top with Bernard and Lukas, the devious IT Head revels in his plan to starve the accomplices out.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Washington and his accomplices took advantage of a legal technicality.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024
Her male accomplices got away, police said.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
Investigators accuse her and dozens of accomplices of taking loans and cash through a web of thousands of shell companies over more than a decade – siphoning off what amounts to a total of $44 billion.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
The crackdown also resulted in the arrest of 15 accomplices, who received prison terms ranging from 8 to 23 years and fines totaling 16 million rubles.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
The volunteer accomplices included Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, mobster Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s dad Milton Rubenfeld, and Frank Sinatra.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Later, Schwimmer and accomplices turned themselves in; most of them were Jewish, and argued that seeing the abject cruelty and genocide perpetrated against the Jews in the Holocaust steeled their resolve to make a righteous moral choice.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Under the Texas Law of Parties, which does not differentiate between accomplices to a crime and those who actually commit the crime, Morrison was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Annie.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Washington and his accomplices took advantage of a legal technicality.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024
Her male accomplices got away, police said.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
Investigators accuse her and dozens of accomplices of taking loans and cash through a web of thousands of shell companies over more than a decade – siphoning off what amounts to a total of $44 billion.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
The crackdown also resulted in the arrest of 15 accomplices, who received prison terms ranging from 8 to 23 years and fines totaling 16 million rubles.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
The volunteer accomplices included Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, mobster Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s dad Milton Rubenfeld, and Frank Sinatra.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Later, Schwimmer and accomplices turned themselves in; most of them were Jewish, and argued that seeing the abject cruelty and genocide perpetrated against the Jews in the Holocaust steeled their resolve to make a righteous moral choice.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Under the Texas Law of Parties, which does not differentiate between accomplices to a crime and those who actually commit the crime, Morrison was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Annie.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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